Wickford
TownTown in Basildon, East of England.
Wickford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wickford add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Wickford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wickford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wickford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wickford at a rate of 64.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 190 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wickford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (545), anti-social behaviour (485) and other crime (264).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wickford was 61.7 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Wickford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wickford has no single figure. Of its 16 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wickford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basildon 005B | 1,695 | 77.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 89.0% |
| Basildon 005D | 1,424 | 55.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Basildon 006B | 1,506 | 97.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.9% |
| Basildon 006C | 1,621 | 37.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.3% |
| Basildon 006D | 1,427 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Basildon 006E | 1,555 | 21.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
| Basildon 007A | 1,388 | 29.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Basildon 007B | 1,496 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Basildon 007C | 1,810 | 48.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.4% |
| Basildon 007D | 1,675 | 26.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| Basildon 007E | 2,070 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Basildon 008A | 1,886 | 151.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.3% |
| Basildon 008B | 1,678 | 93.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.5% |
| Basildon 008C | 1,759 | 34.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.1% |
| Basildon 008D | 2,249 | 195.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.0% |
| Basildon 008E | 2,149 | 32.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.6% |
Your MP
- Mr Mark FrancoisConservativeMP for Rayleigh and Wickford
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Wickford2
Middle areas in Wickford3
Towns near Wickford6
Wickford in brief
Wickford is a town in Basildon, East of England.
About 28,153 people lived in Wickford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £370,000 in 2025 across 465 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 64.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Wickford was £370,000 in 2025.
Wickford had 27,533 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Wickford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wickford, 95.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.